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 1    II|    that all of things by sure degrees~ Are wasting away and going
 2   III|      view our fellow going by degrees,~ And losing limb by limb
 3    IV|   sable shadows, for in large degrees~ This air is nimbler, nicer,
 4    IV|       And perishes sooner, by degrees absorbed~ Easily into all
 5    IV|     turn strikes body, and by degrees~ Thus the whole mass is
 6    IV|  there comes to pass~ By slow degrees, along our members then,~
 7     V|      the sun is thus~ Left by degrees behind amongst those signs~
 8     V|     her light behind~ By slow degrees, the nearer now she glides,~
 9     V| Readily yielded. Then by slow degrees~ The sword of iron succeeded,
10     V|     for more~ Hath carried by degrees mortality~ Out onward to